Recipe: Brown Rice - VEGANGEDDON

The recipe i have picked for my first video is something i often prepare when i am on the go because it's both cheap (1.25$ per serving) and healthy (260kcal).

The ingredients can be easily swapped or modified: this configuration with broccoli and bell pepper is usually cheaper during late winter when these vegetables come cheaper; the pricey bit is obviously the ginger root, which can be exchanged with the juice of half a lemon/lime/orange; otherwise, if you have some little more cash to invest and want to drag this recipe further down the asian fusion side of the scale: double the ginger root quantity (make it 2tbsp), add a freshly cut chili pepper to the oil at the very beginning and sprinkle some soy sauce on top of the finished dish right before serving.

These are amounts for a 2 persons serving, or one starving hobo with a lot of appetite.

Recipe

Peel and slice the onions

Peel and dice the carrot

Peel and slice thinly the garlic cloves and the ginger root, put them in a wok or frying pan (optionally you can add a sliced fresh chili pepper, which unfortunately i didn't have at the time of shooting)

Dice the broccoli and the bell pepper

Add a little olive oil to the pan, turn on the heat on a high flame

As the garlic starts to stir fry, add the diced onions and carrots and stir

When the onions turn golden, add the diced broccoli and bell pepper

Stir, add salt and pepper

Add cooked black beans, stir

Add boiled brown or white rice, stir well

Done.

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I also ask you to take it that our species evolved in a temperate climate (which is why we are hairless); that we were hunters of game animals and gatherers of vegetable food; that seasonal challenge forced on us annual migrations (which is why we have the long striding walk unknown to our primate cousins and why we symbolise life as a long journey); that our hands developed to make our essential equipment — the slings and spears, axes and baskets without which we should be lost; that ideally a man should own no possessions but those he can conveniently carry; that the basic unit of human sociability was not the hunting band, but the group united in defence against the zoological monstrosities with which we shared the bush (for this alone will explain why children are expert palaeozoologists in their nightmares, and why the prime object of our hate is always a beast or a bestialised man); and finally that this archaic life, for all its danger was the Golden Age for which we preserve an instinctive nostalgia and to which we would mentally return. — Bruce Chatwin